Nick Szabo  🔑

@SysGuy714 Solar thermal would work well & safer to launch.

@SysGuy714 Not for launch. Creates a Moore's Law for interplanetary transport: https://szabo.best.vwh.net/comet.mining.html … (Probably also Ceres etc.)

@NickSzabo4 Since this was written 20 years ago, do you plan to update it regarding current progress/stagnation? Would be interesting..

@sroecker Nah, Rate of progress: those ideas were inspired by plans for the very Rosetta that after >2 decades finally arrived at a comet.

@sroecker Back then it was supposed to be a sample return, now it will just analyze samples on-site.

@NickSzabo4 I see. Strange to see the lack of (commercial) interest though given the low cost and high reward of such missions.

@NickSzabo4 Worth mentioning to Planetary Resources or SpaxeX? Elon would appreciate having volatiles waiting for his colonists

@bmcusick I'd be happy to talk to them. Elon's great contribution is < the costs of transporting real space industry (comsats).

@bmcusick The "boring but important" stuff as he calls it.

@NickSzabo4 Incredibly important. If the F9R works we'll finally get some of that future Heinlein and Asimov assumed we'd be at already.

@NickSzabo4 you are, by a stretch, the most interesting person on Twitter. Thanks for being so active.

@grahvity Wow thanks!